Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-19
State AFFAIRS.
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the offender on indictment ana conviction
shall be punished by fine in any sum not
to exceed S100."
This amendment was adopted as part
of Mr.. Browning's amendment, and both
were adopted by the House. :
TO POSTPONE FORCED COLLECTION OF
TAXES.
Senator Calhoun made an eloquent ap-
peal to the Senate to pass the bill for the
pOstponement of the forced collection Of
taxes, describing the condition of the
people in the drouth districts of the state
and the great sacrifice Of property that
will follow the forced collection of taxes
in that section. The bill extends the
time until September l, 1887. After some
discussion it passed to engrossment.
DOUBTFUL MATTER SETTLED.
For some time it has been question
able in the minds Of some Of the members
and Senators whether the bill making an
appropriation 10 furnish the new capitol
would be reached in the course of legiS-
latlon before adjournment, and, if it came
up for consideration before that period,
it was feared by the advocates of the
bill that the Legislature, in q spirit of
economy, would defeat It. Therefore,
when it came up in the Senate
yesterday considerable speculation was
INDUCED in as TO what action that BODY
would take in the premises. The passage
of the bill after cutting down the apprO
priation to $250,000 for furnishing and
improving the grounds, while not coming
up to the demands set forth in the bill, |
has proved generally satisfactory. Com
ments are now being INDUCED in as 10 !
the action of the House, but it is thought
they will accept the bill as it comes from |
the Senate.
STRONG ARGUMENTS.
Perhaps the most fUrcible arguments |
that have been INDUCED in by the mem |
bers during the long discussion over the !
consideration of the land bill came up in |
the House yesterday on motion OF Mr.. |
Jones of Pamela TO strike out that portion |
of the bill that gave Travis county juriS- |
dictiOn in the prosecutions arising from !
a violation of the provisions of the act. |
MIR. Jones and Mr.. Browning made able |
speeches is favor Of the motion on the /
ground that it was q discrimination .
against the people Of one section, and IN
Just to defendants.
Mr.. Mills ade an imprisoned speech
against the motion and referred to the
Judge Willis case as an illustration that
the CoHrts in the Panhandle were not
always conducted in strict accordance
with the law. 1t is considered that Mr..
Browning made very convincing argu-
ment, the tie vote being evidence of the
force of his logic.
EVIDENCE IN THE WILLIS CASE.
A discussion arose in the Senate this
morning over q resolution offered by
Senator Burney to have the testimony
taken before the special committee in
AZ, Id, IL,
records of the Senate. The resolution as
offered leaves it largely discrs tionary with
the committee to publish only such evil
denCe as they considered important to
perfect understanding of the case. This
was objected to as limiting the rights of
the state and unjust to the defendant
The reading of the original resolution,
the investigation, was called
for, and it was found to embOdy the re-
quirement that the committee should take
down all the testimony offered during the
and preserve the same. Some
of the Senators offered 3 motion TO
lay the resolution to print and all the
upon the table, giving as g
reason for Offering the motion that it
would be unnecessary to put the state to
the extra expense of printing when the
manuscript could be read before the Sen
ate. This motion was lost, and TIE resO-
luton to print the evidence in the journ-
ais was adopted.
THE GOVERNOR INDICATED.
MetaphOrically speaking, the cores
pendent of the San Antonio Express de-
tramps upon the Governors
toes and then apologies. In Thursdays
issue of the Express there appears among
q homogeneous collection of praise and
this language: 'Now
hold your breath and squeeze yourself
hard. They say that he has his family
washing done at the LunstiC Asylum at,
of course, the states expense. HoW's
t1at for official corruptiOn?"
To say that Governor Ross is pleased
over this notice would be presuming too
much. Even upon the prOVerbial good
nature of that gentleman, though he has
neither pronounced his approval
nor disapprovaI of this double con-
struCted compliment. The only foundation
which this language could have been con-
terted from grew out of the following in
cident, related to THE GAZETTE reporter
by Mr.. Holmes, the Governors private
secretary, which was in effect that Mrs.
Ross, while renoVating the Governors
discovered pair of dirty, torn
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the state of Texas. Subsequently Mrs.
Ross visited the wife CT DR.. Dorsett, Su-
perintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, and
while in conversation with that lady Mrs.
Ross praised the laundTying of the cur
tains, and when informed that
they were laundried at the asy-
lum, she remarked that if she
could get the curtains referred to above
Hundred in as satisfactory q manner
she would mend them and save the state
the expense of buying new ones. Mrs. {
Dorsett invited her to send them to the
asylum as they were the states property.
Mrs. Ross did so and this is the matter
in nut shell, so 10 speak. This is
trivial matter upon its face, but it be-
comes necessary to give it publication to
counteract what might be false imp :es-
sion conveyed by the language in the
Express.
In this connection one gentlemen was !
heard 10 remark, "It might be
considered brilliant for a newspaper
writer to take advantage of Mrs. Ross !
desire to economic in behalf of the state
and torture her remarks into language
calculated to annoy the Governor and be I
hU bo Oub1iP |